Recorder servicing Information/Prices - recorder servicing Cases Code Description ex. VAT from 1 Jan. 2008 inc. VAT from 1 Jan. 2008 2408 Sopranino Recorder Deluxe Case 2417 Descant/Soprano Recorder Soft Case 2418 Descant/Soprano Recorder Deluxe Case 2427 Treble/Alto Recorder Soft Case 2428 Treble/Alto Recorder Deluxe Case 2436 Tenor Recorder Soft Wallet 2437 Tenor Recorder Soft Case 2438 Tenor Recorder Deluxe Case 2448 Bass Recorder Deluxe Case 2462 Descant & Treble Recorder Duo Deluxe Case 2463 Sopranino, Descant & Treble Recorder Trio Deluxe Case 2464 Sopranino to Tenor Recorder Quartet Deluxe Case Prices do not include postage or packing Mioplant Currency Converter - download this desktop utility to find out prices in your own currency! Millennium case prices are to be found on the Millennium Great Bass Recorder page. Recorder stand Make Your Own Recorder Stand Recorder Stands available from Claire Freestone Accessories Code Description ex. VAT from 1 Jan. 2008 inc. VAT from 1 Jan. 2008 2511 Descant/Soprano Recorder Cleaning Stick 2411 Descant/Soprano Recorder Cleaning Mop 2521 Treble/Alto Recorder Cleaning Stick 2421 Treble/Alto Recorder Cleaning Mop 2422 Treble/Tenor Recorder Brass Thumbrest 2531 Tenor Recorder Cleaning Stick 2431 Tenor Recorder Cleaning Mop 2441 Bass Recorder Cleaning Mop 2442 Bass Recorder Brass Thumbrest 2445 Bass Recorder Sling 2470 Joint Grease Prices do not include postage or packing Mioplant Currency Converter - download this desktop utility to find out prices in your own currency! Ivorine mounts Ivorine is a synthetic non-animal sourced resin with a grain-like structure that successfully mimics the look of genuine ivory which Dolmetsch no longer uses. Ivorine can be applied to a recorder either during manufacture or retrospectively. The addition of ivorine mounts has no effect on the performance of the recorder and, unlike ivory, adds virtually no extra weight. We use a similar material to bush thumbholes on new recorders and also on instruments where the thumbhole has become worn through use. We can bush recorders of any manufacture. We purchase our raw material from:  G.P.S. Agencies  Units 3 & 3A  Hambrook Business Centre  Cheesmans Lane  Hambrook  Chichester  West Sussex  PO18 8XP  tel: 01243-574444  fax: 01243-574313   Mouthpiece Sleeve Two Socket Rings Bell Base Sleeve % added to instrument price add 25% add 40% add 20% End pins Large recorders are heavy and even when slung from a neck-strap can prove a strain on the player's back and neck. An excellent alternative is to keep the instrument off the floor on an end-pin. You can then discard the neck-strap. Dolmetsch supplies adjustable brass end-pins for bass and great bass recorders which screw into a specially made location point fitted discretely into the bottom of the bell of the recorder. They do not interfere with the sound or tuning in any way. They are adjustable and have a non-slip foot. They can be fitted to any make of bass, great bass or contra bass recorder. Please note that the Dolmetsch Millennium Series which has a square cross-section does not require this accessory as all the models are built to be floor-standing or are supplied with their own end-pin. Dolmetsch adjustable endpins are available only on special order. Keys Special keys Dr. Carl Dolmetsch invented a number of devices to increase the dynamic possibilities and the range of the recorder. Two of them are still manufactured by Dolmetsch. The third, the tone projector, is no longer manufactured. The lip key when operated slightly sharpens the recorder letting you play more quietly without going flat. convenient and reliable, every time increases recorder's dynamic range may be fitted retrospectively to any make treble lip key shown on left A small hole is drilled behind the window of the recorder and sleeved with ivorine. The ivorine protrudes slightly into the head to prevent 'flooding' during use. When the key is opened (operated by the lower lip or chin) the recorder plays sharp. The player can then drop his pressure to correct this and so play more quietly without playing flat. This effect is particularly effective in large concert halls and recording studios. The bell key provides an easy way of closing the bell providing a secure high F# on the treble (C# on descant and tenor recorder) and a number of additional higher notes, alternative and special trill fingerings. convenient and reliable, every time high F# and G# on sopranino and treble/alto high C# and D# on descant/soprano and tenor guarantees a chromatic range of two octaves and a fifth may be fitted retrospectively to any make of recorder treble/alto bell key shown on left A number of modern works for recorder, in particular many of those written for Dr. Dolmetsch himself, assumed the recorder was fitted with this key. Where the player wants the freedom to play a recorder without a bell-key when this is not required we can provide a 'second' foot or bell section fitted with this key leaving the first foot or bell section un-keyed. Main body keys Dolmetsch also provides a range of additional keys for increased player comfort including bottom double keys and additional single or double keys for other holes on the recorder; for example holes three and four on treble, tenor and bass recorders (some makers call these 'mid-section' keys). All these keys can be applied retrospectively to any make of wooden recorder of any age. convenient and reliable, every time secure F/F# on treble or C/C# on descant and tenor may be fitted retrospectively to any make tenor double key shown on left Not only can it be difficult to reach the bottom double holes on treble and tenor recorders but with some makes it can be difficult to control 'heavy' oversprung keywork. Dolmetsch has designed a light but silent 'up-and-over' system where both keys lie over a large single hole. This design means that we can convert tenors fitted with a single F key to an instrument with both an F and an F# using this particular design. We are also able to carry out the same conversion on any instrument fitted with a pair of small double holes. Key prices Code Description ex. VAT from 1 Jan. 2008 inc. VAT from 1 Jan. 2008 2320 Descant Recorder Lip Key 2321 Descant Recorder Bell Key 2330 Treble Recorder Lip Key 2331 Treble Recorder Bell Key 2332 Treble Recorder Double Key (F/F#) 2333 Treble Single Key for holes 3 or 4 2340 Tenor Recorder Lip Key 2341 Tenor Recorder Bell Key 2342 Tenor Recorder Double Key (F/F#) 2343 Tenor Single Key for holes 3 or 4 2352 Bass Recorder Double Key (F/F#) 2353 Bass Single Key for holes 3 or 4 Prices do not include postage or packing Mioplant Currency Converter - download this desktop utility to find out prices in your own currency! Keys for disability Dolmetsch makes descant/soprano and treble/alto recorders for those who can use only one hand either through unavailability, incompleteness, loss or loss of use. Please follow this link to read more about these remarkable instruments Tone projector   Imagine a wheelbarrow without its subframe, wheel or handles and with its base removed. Cut a pair of arcs from the bottom of the north and south faces of this device so that when placed on the recorder, secured by an elastic band running around the back of the head section attached to two protruding pins placed one on the east, the other on the west face, it fits snuggly like a rectangular megaphone over the recorder's window. The effect is to slightly flatten the pitch of the recorder and to concentrate the sound energy radiating from the window. These two properties of the device allow the player to blow more strongly, without compromising the pitch, so giving the impression that the recorder tone is stronger than it might otherwise seem. The tone projector was invented and so named by Dr. Carl Dolmetsch and was manufactured by the Dolmetsch company until the 1970s, in wood and later in plastic (for descant/soprano and treble/alto). With the advent of small microphones, that can be attached to the instrument itself, the tone projector is now seldom used. For this reason, the Dolmetsch company no longer manufactures nor supplies this intriguing product.